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When I was 14, I asked Father Galligher, “Can I decree a thing and make it happen, or is God the only one that can do that?”

“Most certainly you can decree a thing and make it happen, Bobby.” Father Galligher answered. “You are always decreeing what’s happening to you. You just don’t notice. It’s your attitude and how you behave that does the decreeing.”

I never quite grasped what Father Galligher was saying back then. Clearly, I couldn’t decree a thunderstorm into my day, no matter what my attitude might be. I couldn’t decree when the sun would rise and set, no matter how much I might chant to the heavens. And I couldn’t decree the moment that flowers would bloom in spring, or leaves would fall, come the fall season, in spite of my incantations.

However, now I can see that it is most certainly me that decrees how life responds to me, specifically. The company I keep, the successes I enjoy, and the failures I endure – all of these have everything to do with me, with who I’ve created myself to be.

Nothing ever appears in my world without me participating. Be it something good, bad or indifferent, if it shows up in my experience – no matter how hard I try to deny the fact that I had anything to do with it – I have to be vibrating “YES” to it.

What I’ve especially noticed, over the past decade, is that I don’t decree things to happen by force or by shouting. I decree things to happen by feeling as though it’s natural to happen, even before signs of it appearing have shown up in my world.

I remember when it felt natural to make my first million: I’d barely quit teaching school before a new feeling came over me. I remember when it felt natural to open my first restaurant: first, I flirted with the idea, and then it felt natural to act on the idea. I remember when it felt natural to write my first book. I began keeping a journal, and one day it felt natural to extend my writing into book form.

The ‘feeling of naturalness’ is the ‘act of decreeing’. After that, the unseen becomes seeable. Work on feeling natural about achieving your dreams – the rest gets real easy. If it doesn’t feel natural, all the hard work and strategizing in a lifetime won’t do it.

My mom died last year at age 93 (I was seventy), and it was still a big event to swallow. I felt like I was seven. Shortly after that, I began thinking about how I was taught to look at death – like it is the end of life. Thinking deeper into the matter, I now believe my first interpretation of death (it’s the end of life), is a huge misunderstanding.

Death is not the end, but rather, it’s the beginning of a new life. I believe that when we die, we walk through the door to a brightness far beyond anything we experience in this physical realm of existence.

I believe that there really is nothing ugly about death; but out of our fear of death (often coming from religious teachings), we’ve made the word scary and detestable.

The fear of death arises because we see death from the outside; it’s always someone else who dies: their breathing stops, their heart stops beating, that person who used to walk and talk is now just a corpse (so it seems).

What I now believe death really is – is the transformation of life from a physical body to a celestial body. And, I believe it is experienced as a great journey by the person passing over into that new realm of existence. What makes it difficult to accept this is that we cannot know the journey from the outside. From outside, we only see symptoms of a physical demise, and we misinterpret what we see. These symptoms make us afraid.

I believe that everyone who dies of their physical form (everyone who experiences death from the inside), loses all fear of death in the moment the passing over occurs.

When you were born, you didn’t just pop into this dimension of existence from outer space because a sperm collided with an egg. Nor were you made of anything that wasn’t with you before you were born.

Your birth was an unveiling; it was an unveiling of infinite potential. It was also a revealing of The Infinite in yet another physical form. “See not yet all things that are part of you.” – author unknown.

Ancient script speaks of God manifesting in the flesh. Is it possible that God has manifested in you. Okay, so what do you do with this kind of lofty conversation? What pragmatic possibility does it offer? It’s more than just “an affirming” of the mystery of your being; it offers you the opportunity to access an awesome inner power that most definitely can make your dreams come true.

What if you had faith that you are part of “The Infinite”? What if you had confidence that “the power that worketh to make the heavens” is the same power that works within you? What would you dare do that right now frightens you?

Just, “WHAT IF” ancient script that describes you this way is correct? What if the kingdom of heaven really and truly is within you? Wow, now that’s worth giving some thought to.

Your greatest creative power is found deep within you. Only when you dive deep inside can you connect with the Four Interactive Forces of Creation. These four forces – strong nuclear interaction, weak nuclear interaction, gravity, and electromagnetic energy – are the building-power that put this entire cosmos together. They are the building-power that puts your entire life together.

The purpose of an affirmation is to remove all mental obstacles that stop you from connecting with these Four Interactive Forces. When you speak an affirmation that removes all obstacles from your mind, you automatically connect with these forces. And that moment enables you to use them to make your wildest dreams and grandest aspirations come true.

You don’t have to understand how these Four Forces interact with the Life Force Energy, of which everything is made, but you do have to know that you have command of these mighty forces when you learn to affirm your aspirations in a fashion that give you faith in your own word.

The power that you wield is the same power that has taken the human race out of caves, where we once lived with bats and foraged for food with rats, and placed us on the moon. All further advancement that occurs in the evolution of humanity will be a consequence of folks like you affirming grander visions to be true and having the faith in your spoken words to make it so in your life.

Idle repetition is speaking an affirmation mechanically, but not feeling it in your heart and soul. Speak it like you mean it, and don’t speak it if you don’t intend to do whatever it takes to prove you mean it. That great truth will make the difference between whether you live and die a fruitless life that makes you cry or live a rich and exciting life that has you daily feeling joyously high.

What are you affirming these days?

Schooling and education will make you a living, but heart-felt affirmations will make you a fortune!

It’s easy to see how evolution has occurred on this planet over the past billion years. No one disputes that first came the mineral kingdom; inert and seemingly motionless without any aspirations to become more than what it is.

And then came the plant kingdom, stuck right where it is rooted, and dependent on the mineral kingdom to exist. The plant kingdom displays more intelligence than the mineral kingdom; it requires specific physical needs fulfilled in order to grow. It’s alive!

Next comes the animal kingdom, where intelligence is on the rise. The animal kingdom can move about and uses the physical environment in which it lives to thrive. It’s growth and development is determined mostly by it’s bodily needs and procreation; it lives its life by the 4 F Principle – Fight, Flight, Feed & Fornicate.

The Big Bang of evolution occurs next with the human kingdom. What can we not do with our creative imaginations and passion for more and more living? We are not slaves to how things currently are because we are able to change circumstances over which the other kingdoms have no control. We have the ability to dream higher and achieve that to which we aspire. And, that ability gives us unlimited power to create our earthly destiny as we want it to be. Sweet liberty!

“There are divine things, more beautiful than words can tell.” Walt Whitman.

It’s time for me to stop writing so you can start imagining. What aspirations and visions will you entertain today?

“ He who ascends to this height has all things under his feet.” – Ruysbroeck

Laughter feels good because it removes our burdens. What could be healthier than that? I remember as a kid how much I enjoyed laughing because it was like setting my mind aside from the things that were bothering me. I had some of my best time as a kid.

It’s a shame that teaching systems and religious education often avoid laughter. It’s like someone decided think that if you laugh you’re not learning. And yet, it’s been proven that the mind absorbs better when in a state of wowful joy than when in a state of woeful sulking.

It’s not only psychologically refreshing to laugh a lot, it’s also physically healing. Your whole body, and all of the atoms in your body react positively to a good belly laugh. All sorts of beneficial bio-chemical reactions spontaneously release from the brain.

Angels fly because they take life lightly; perhaps it’s time for you to consider that approach to life? You’re always a magnet, attracting to you what your mood emanates outwardly. A good laugh puts you in a good mood. A good mood attracts the right and perfect things to help you achieve your aspirations quickly and with ease. Never discount the value of a good mood. Never dismiss the power of a good laugh.

A great thing to laugh about is the ridiculous situations that you put yourself in when you get caught in foolish dramatics. Soap operas are rarely funny. When your life becomes a soap opera, you may notice that there’s rarely anything to laugh about. Unless you laugh at the fact that you’ve done that to yourself. When you laugh a lot, situations in your life ease up. Somber situations cannot exist in a good mood.

I believe that the retarded humanity is a consequence of lack of laughter, and ever-advancing human condition comes with gaiety and laughter. Dance and laugh a lot, and there is a unique quality that comes to your personality; a quality that attracts the right and perfect people into your company; people who are able to help you make your dreams come true. This personality is also creative and innovative; it opens your mind to ideas that support your dreams of being happy, productive in the world.

Open your life to laughter and you open yourself to the joyous treasures that the world has to offer. There is little lasting success where there is a lack of laughter. Do you want to be successful? Do you want your success to last? If a quiz is quizzical, then what does that make a test? Laugh more!